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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20918	A true narrative of the sufferings and relief of a young girle; strangely molested, by evil spirits and their instruments, in the west collected from authentick testimonies there-anent. With a preface and post-script containing reflections on what is most material or curious; either in the history, or trial of the seven witches who were condemn'd to be execute in that countrey.	Cullen, Francis Grant, Lord, 1658-1726.; MacGilchrist, John.	1698 (1698)	Wing C7475B; ESTC R213564	83,138	72

of the Servants being abroad the Matter was not further search't The same day about Six at Night she was seiz'd with variety of greivous Fits again in which sometimes she lay wholly Senseless and Breathless with her Belly swer'd like a Drum as like a Woman with Child her Eyes were pul'd into her Head so far that Spectators thought she should never have us'd them more sometimes when she was tying her own Neck-cloaths her enchanted Hands would ty them so strait about her Neck that she had strangled her self if Spectators had not given some Relief unto her sometimes she was in hazard of burning her self in the fire offering with violence to throw her self into the same Divers time she did strick furious Blows at her near Relations in her Fits she 'd maintain Discource with her Tormentors and asking Questions concerning her self and others received answer from them which indeed none but her self perceiv'd Reasoning particularly with one of them after this manners O what ail'd thee to be a Witch thou sai'st it is but three Nights since thou wast a Witch O if thou would'st Repent it may be GOD might give thee Repentance if thou would'st seek it and Confess if thou would desire me I would do what I could for he Devil is an ill Master to serve he is a Dyer from the beginning he promises but he cannot perform Then calling for her bible she said I 'l let thee see where he promised to our first Parents that they should not Die And reading the passage said now thou seest he is a Lyer for by breaking of the Commandment they were made lyable to Death here and Death everlasting O that 's an Uncouth word long Eternity never to nave an end never never to have an end Had not GOD of his infinit Mercy ordain'd some to Eternal Life throught JESUS CHRIST The Devil makes thee believe thou wilt get great Riches by serving him but come near and having uttered this word she lost power of Speech her Tongue being drawn back into her Throat yet beckning with her Hand to the Spectre to come near her turning over the Book kep't her Eye upon that passage of Holy Scripture Job 27.18 And pointing with her Finger at the place ' and shaking her Head turn'd over the Book again And recovering Speech ' said I 'l let thee see where GOD bids us seek and we shall find and reading over the place said it is GOD that gives us every good Gift we have nothing of our own I submit to his will tho I never be better for GOD can make all my trouble turn to my Advantage according to his Word Rom. 8.28 which place the then read and thus continued Reasoning for the space of an Hour Sometimes she cry'd out of violent pain by reason of furious Blows and Stroaks she had received from the Hands of her Tormentors the Noise of which Stroaks by standers distinctly heard tho they perceiv'd not the Hands that gave them One Night the Girle fitting with her Parents and others cry'd out something was wounding her Thigh Upon which instantly her Mother puting her Hand in the Damsels pocket found her folding Knife open'd which had been folded when put in her Pocket but her Uncle not trusting the thing did again put up the Knife and leaving it folden in her pock't on a sudden she cry'd out as before the Knife was cutting her Thigh being unfolded by the means of I. P. and others as she said Upon which her Uncle searching her Pocket again found the Knife open'd as formerly This happened twice or thrice to the Administation of the Beholders tho they took special Notice that she nor any other visible Hand opened it January 25th She was again seizd with her Swooning stiff Fits with this remarkable Variation her Throat was sometimes most prodigiously extended and sometimes as strangely Contracted and Convel'd so that she appeard in palpable danger of being Choak't and through the violence of pain in her Throat and difficulty of Breathing struggled with her Feet and Hands as 〈◊〉 some had been actually Strangling her and could Speak or Cry none with which kind of Fits she was frequently seiz'd for several days and in the intervals did declare that the fore-mention'd persons and other whom she could not get then nom'd were strangling her and that the occasion of her not having power to speak or cry in the Fit was a Ball in her Throat which also was visible to spectators for they did clearly discern a Bunch in her Throat while in the Fit as bigg as a Pullets Egg which had almost Choak't her Sometimes she was kep't from eating her Meat having her Teeth sett when she carried any food to her Mouth Diverse times also she was kept from Drinking when at Meat for no sooner could she taste the Drink but she was in hazard to be Choak't thereby and her self sometimes would have held the Cup so hard betwixt her Teeth that it was not in the power of those with her to unloose it And when any thing had fallen out amiss in the place where she was as the falling and breaking of a Cup and Body's receiving harm and such like She would fall a laughing and rejoyce extremely which kind of Jollity was for from the Girl 's temper when at her self February 1st She Essaying to tell some things she had been forbidden by her Tormentors to make known was handled with intolerable Torments At the beginning of her Fits usually she would be kep't odly looking sometimes toward the Chimney sometimes towards other particular places in the Room but could not always tell what she saw yet for ordinary she 'd Name such and such Persons who she said were then come to cast her into Fits And when any desired her to cry to the LORD JESUS for help her Teech were instantly sett closs her Eyes tuisted almost round in her Head and she was thrown upon the Floo with the stiffness posture of one that had been some days laid for Dead And on a sudden recovered again and would weep bitterly to remember what had befal'n her The same day when her Fits were over she said she now perceiv'd it was by the means of a Charm that such Restraints were laid upon her that she could not tell what the Witches had forbidden her to make known but the Charm might be found out as she said by searching for it beneath the Bed where she lay and she having quickly done this her self found to the apprehension of Spectators beneath the foresaid Bed an inteir Egg-shell open in the end which being in stantly thrown into the Fire did melt away after the manner of Wax without any such Noise as Egg-shells use to make when burning in the Fire After this the Girle said she would not now be handled so severely upon Essaying to make known what the Witches had forbidden her to tell only her Tongue would be drawn back into her Throat which accordingly happened